Mufti Menk – Curing Your Heart

Mufti Menk

Friday lecture delivered in Accra Ghana- Curing the heart Here, the mufti takes to the mimbar to educate and inform us about the importance of a clean heart, one that is pure from impurities.

Just like scum that leave their mark in our baths, so do habits like envy, anger, selfishness, pride leave marks on our Iman. If not cured, these lead to violence resulting in deaths and in some places are already leading to killings, as was predicted by our beloved prophet Muhammad s.a.w.  

Withverses of the Quran and hadiths, our mufti educates us on the crucially required curing of our hearts. Listen to this talk and increase our knowledge and our chances of earning the pleasure of Allah.

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The speakers discuss the importance of fulfilling the duty to study Jesus and receive his lessons in order to earn mercy, with a focus on the heart and the belief that everyone should love one another. They stress the need to be the proper contributor, protecting peace and stability, and avoiding harming others. The importance of smile, showing one's face, and avoiding being afraid of others is emphasized, as well as the negative impact of violence on people and the need for privacy. The segment also touches on the negative impact of jealousy and reducing chances of entering into gender.

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			Alhamdulillah number two who want to study you know who want to study he want to build a Himanshu
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			La La ilaha illa Allah Allah hula hula Sheree Kala wash Havana Mohammed Abu Rasulullah sallallahu
		
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			alayhi salatu wa salam O Allah, Allah Allah.
		
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			Allah, Allah, what de PUE elementary Giovanna de la la from LA to LA, Luna sin la casa de la jolla,
mon My beloved brothers and sisters in Islam. It is important for us to be conscious of Allah, our
maker subhanho wa Taala
		
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			he who made us is he whom we shall be returning to, he has given us a short space of time on Earth,
in order to earn his mercy so that we can enter into His paradise. And he has set for us a beautiful
example in the life of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		
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			wherein we draw from beautiful lessons and instruction. And we derive from it the method of worship
that Allah has chosen for himself subhanho wa Taala and therefore, I advise yourselves and myself,
to fulfill your duty unto Allah subhanho wa Taala
		
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			to ensure that you understand the reason that Allah subhanho wa Taala has created you and I,
		
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			I wish today to address a very important matter.
		
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			And I will start off by speaking about an organ within the body that has no bone. In fact, it is
very complicated. It is filled with muscle. It is filled with blood. And it is considered a piece of
flesh as per the hadith of normanni Bashir or the Allahu anhu in Sahih Muslim. He says that the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has told us and then he goes on to make mention of quite a few
things that at the end of that narration, he says that the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
said Allah was in the field Jessa de la magua. He the Salah, had Salah had just said you could look
what He then said that festival just said to kulu Dooku Allah wa here. Indeed, behold, in this body,
		
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			there is a piece of flesh, if it is pure and good, the entire body will be pure and good. And if it
is corrupt and filled with sickness, then the entire body shall be corrupted and filled with
sickness, what is the organ he says, Behold, it is the heart. My brothers and sisters, let us all
ponder today over the condition of our heart, you know, that when a person is sick, medically, they
do what is known as a blood test in order to verify what exactly the sickness is. And that will
determine the precise levels of the minerals, the vitamins, the sickness, the disease, whatever it
may be the sugar, etc, in your body.
		
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			Let me tell you that the same heart is checked when it comes to the spiritual sicknesses of the
body. We sometimes tend to love that which we are supposed to love within limits in an unlimited
way. For example, wealth, it is normal to have an inclination towards wealth, we all like to have
nice things we all would love to have a beautiful convenience and a lovely home. But remember,
		
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			part of earning Paradise is to be able to achieve what you like on earth in a way that does not
contradict what Allah wants from you. So you can earn but in a halal way, in a pure way, do not eat
from one another by means of oppression and robbery. And this is why we say If a person's love for
wealth is such that he knows the law of Allah subhanho wa Taala then that love is wrong.
		
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			If a person's love for anything material, say for example for the opposite *, if it is such that
it goes against the teaching of Allah subhanho wa Taala
		
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			Then that person is not well, spiritually, they deserve or they need to be cured. Just like we have
an antibiotic that would perhaps combat the bacteria in the body. We need to return back to the
Quran and the sooner in order to combat this spiritual manatees. Now I wish to move further with a
very, very important point. My brothers, my sisters, we are bleeding today in the coma, because we
do not love one another. It is a very major disaster that we are facing. Ask yourself today. Have
Allah subhanho wa Taala in your heart and ask yourself, do I love those who are seated next to me?
Do I love those members of the Ummah, my brothers and sisters solely for the sake of Allah or is my
		
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			heart filled with hatred against someone?
		
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			It is such that the filth of hatred can overtake us in a way that we will damage the entire oma
without even realizing. Take a look at all of the problems on the globe today that the oma is
facing, you will find that it goes back to a disease and the sickness of the heart.
		
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			If we have a problem with one another, we are taught with love to rectify the matter. We are taught
to be genuine. If I have seen you doing something bad the worst thing would be to publicize it on
Facebook and on Instagram and Snapchat and what have you without solving the problem? When I have a
problem with you we're lucky the messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has taught me number
one to make dua number two, when I say make dua, I mean to supplicate for you. Number two is to be
able to reach out to you in a beautiful way. My brother, I noticed this, my sister, I noticed this,
I may be wrong. Please, can we clarify this matter? Can we sort this issue out between us behind
		
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			closed doors, we don't want to create a disaster out in the oma to let the rest of the people think
that the two of us are fighting. No, we are not supposed to do that if you care for Allah and his or
her soul. And if you care for the Day of Judgment, you will resolve your matters in a beautiful way
amicable so that you can set an example for the rest of the oma, we are one family, we actually are
brothers and sisters, no matter where we draw on the face of the earth. And we need to understand
the matters we have and the disputes we have between us. We resolve them with a clean heart. It is
only when one wants to boo that he is right and everyone else is wrong, that the heart becomes
		
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			contaminated with the self conceitedness and the heart becomes contaminated in a way that they will
not be able to resolve the problem.
		
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			My brothers and sisters, remember the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam speaks about love for the
sake of Allah. And he says how important it is so important that there is a God known as howdy to
set up the Hadith of the seven who are the seven seven categories of people who will be granted a
special shade on the Day of Judgment. Allah subhanho wa Taala says to us through the blessing
glimpse of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, that there are seven people who are the VIPs on the
Day of Judgment, they will be given the shade of Allah that day when no other shade will be there,
and it will be desperately needed from among them. radula need to have Buffy Laurie
		
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			panela those two who love each other for the sake of Allah, there was love between them. And the
example is given off to it includes male and female and it includes more than two. In fact, the
encouragement is for all because my brothers and sisters remember the solutions to the problems we
have. They don't start with the man you have the problem with no or the sister you have the problem
with they start with you. That's what it is. When I have a problem. It is me who that problem starts
with not the person I have it He is the second party. So first I need to rectify myself. This is why
Allah says in Allah.
		
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			Him, Allah will not change the condition of a nation until each individual changes himself or
herself. When I think I want to contribute to my nation, let me not be corrupt. Let me be the proper
leader. Let me be the proper citizen. Let me be the proper contributor. That is when I will be able
to resolve the matters of the nation so Canada, a nation will never be successful when the buck is
passed on to
		
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			The other, each one pointing at the other, blaming the other for the problem that will never ever
resolve the matter. The matter is resolved when we all take it upon ourselves, I will not do that
which is wrong, I am going to contribute What am I done? What am I doing that is the way it should
be. It shows cleanliness of the heart, my brothers and sisters, these two who love each other for
the sake of Allah, they gather in the love of Allah and when they disperse, they are dispersing
within the love of Allah subhanho wa Taala I need you I love you for the sake of Allah, even though
I don't know you personally, there is no condition that I need to know you personally. Why are we
		
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			here today? We are here in order to fulfill our duty unto Allah. We are here in order to listen to
something uplifting that can perhaps bring us closer to Allah. We are here in order to become better
people so that when the others see us and interact with us, they recognize immediately these people
are perhaps the best of the people you can have. Why is it that the Muslim woman is struggling today
where some of us when people interact with us? They don't even want to deal with us anymore. They
don't even want to talk to us anymore. They will spread across the others that don't deal with this
man. He is not honest. Why should that happen? We are ambassadors of Allah and His Rasulullah
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. I'm sure we can change that. I'm sure we can do better my brothers and
sisters. It's the heart. It's the heart. Learn to love for your brother, what you love for yourself.
That is not easy until you have cleansed your heart. Remember law you may know
		
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			you hate FEMA, you hate Boolean FC. None of you are true believers until you love for your brother
what you love for yourself. My brothers and sisters, how many of us are guilty of not loving for one
another, even the peace that we have for Canada? Did you know that after your Eman? One of the
biggest gifts that Allah has given you is peace, stability, security, it is something great, please
preserve it. Please make sure that you never do anything to disturb the peace in your surroundings.
Never let someone brainwash you to think that the solution of a problem you may have is through
violence because it is not my brothers and sisters, remember that? Look at the world take a look at
		
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			wherever there is violence, has it solved the problem? Or has it made a bigger problem in the human?
Why is it that we allow little differences amongst us to make us get to the level where we start
thinking of harming someone physically? How can that happen? That is prohibited in the Sharia. We
love one another like I said at the beginning you have a problem you will sit if it means one time
20 times 100 times, but you will not have a another you will not harm the dignity and then and the
honor of another let alone physical harm. May Allah subhanho wa Taala says goddess it goes back to
the heart learn to love one another. Why does Allah say that when you love one another you will get
		
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			genital favoritos Why does he say that? He says it because it is very difficult to do that. That's
why if it was something simple, the reward would also be simple. But when Allah says love one
another, you are my VIP on the Day of Judgment. You need to know that's not an easy task. It is
something very difficult. I need to give up my opinion sometimes because I want the bread benefit of
the oma sometimes I need to tolerate something I need to respect the difference sometimes because I
want the broader benefit. It's not about me, it's about us. Remember that my brothers and sisters,
we are an Obama facing crisis. We are an Obama home. Some are trying to brainwash our children into
		
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			believing that the solutions of our problems are through violence and through harming the other and
attacking only to create more violence in such a way that it returns to us with total destruction.
Never allow this to happen. It is our duty as an Ummah, to use the member on a Friday to educate the
masses for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala with the beautiful message of Islam and the diversity
that it honors and respects. Subhana Allah, I will not be able to think like you exactly. And you
will not be able to think like me exactly. We might not be exactly on the same level of many
matters. But voila, he there should be no love lost. Why? Because you are answerable to Allah. I am
		
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			answerable to Allah we will continue to educate each other. We will continue discussing with each
other but in a respectable manner. We are not animals, we are human beings. Allah has blessed us
with the best posture laquanda fall upon us.
		
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			Indeed, we have created men in the best possible posture, the best of postures, starting with the
brain Allah has given us it's the best brains of Allah Subhana Allah use it my brothers and sisters
and Have you realized in the Koran, the connection between the brain and the heart is such that
sometimes Allah subhanho wa Taala uses the term the heart they do not think with it. So Pamela lavon
boo boo, La Jolla Kahuna beha la Carla says they have hearts through which they don't even
understand. One might say, why does Allah say you understand through the heart because my brothers
and sisters the connection between the heart and the mind is so strong that when you have a disease
		
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			of the heart, it affects the way you think. It affects the way you think. Learn to love one another.
And this I'm talking of within the womb to start with, learn to love one another learn to greet one
another Allah De Luca and Amrita to move
		
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			to Santa Monica.
		
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			We all believe Mohammed Salah has to be the best of creation, the most noble of all profits. Do you
know what he says? Should I not show you something? If you were to do it correctly, it would spread
love amongst you. Now someone might think he needs to give half an hour lecture 45 minute talk no
one sentence of Salama binaca spread the true Salam amongst yourselves. I greet you and I know the
meaning of the greeting and I live by the meaning of the greeting. Hadid says it will spread love.
When I say a Salaam Alaikum it means I will not harm you. What did I say? I said we don't have one
another. We never touch one another physically with bad intent. No, we say Assalamu alaikum it means
		
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			peace be upon you. If I tell you may peace be upon you. I am telling you that I guarantee you I
won't harm you. You are my brother, you are my sister. Why do we not even greet each other? My
brothers and sisters we are selective in the greeting. Let's learn to greet one another. It is the
instruction of your Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. He says greet one another beautiful greeting
and meet in your heart. This is why a hypocrite is he or she who greets you but stabs you behind
your back. That is not what we want someone who smiles at you and only after they turn around you
find out these were just dentures they were plastic they fell off. May Allah forgive us. We need to
		
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			smile genuinely we need to smile with one another because smiling is a sadaqa Why is it a sonata
Yesterday I saw a clip that someone sent to me on my phone of a man on a train in a non Muslim
country. They were doing a study and he started laughing looking at his iPad, and he was laughing
and he continued to laugh and he laughed louder and louder until everyone on the whole train began
to laugh. They were laughing at him laughing and the point is how contagious it is. If you see a man
sitting in the corner laughing and laughing the other people start to laugh when you see everyone
laughing You will love it is contagious. When lovely my brothers and sisters we were taught
		
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			something similar by Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam about the smile. When you smile at people
it shows the cleanliness of your heart and you are helping them they might be depressed because of a
problem they may have had during the day. Your smile can solve a lot of the diseases that you have
and others have. It shows genuine this high smile today many of us are frowning not realizing that
we're like an act of sadaqa not every of every one of us can afford so much but an act of charity
just to smile your expression. Show us those teeth my brothers and sisters Subhana Allah and you
will be earning a reward from Allah subhanho wa Taala. So the issue of loving one another and
		
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			cleansing the heart is absolutely important. Another very interesting aspect of the heart is a
disease known as jealousy. We become jealous when one has achieved yet that was in the hands of
Allah, a rich man who gave him his richness. It is Allah so when we become jealous of him, we are
actually jealous of the distribution of Allah, a man amongst us For example, He may be propelled
into position of authority. Well, knowledge is a big responsibility. Don't become jealous rather
make dua or Allah what the person he has authority make it easy for him, guide him to the correct
decisions. That is the true quality of men. Rather than becoming jealous and saying bad words for
		
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			what it shows a disease of the heart You do not or you are actually reducing the chances of you
entering into gender with ease because of your heart so become happy at the happiness of others.
Don't become sad at the success of another person in the classroom.
		
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			For example, one person comes out first, the others have to come out second, third and the order
continues. Not everyone can be first when we are jealous of that person. It will not help us in our
studies. In fact, it will destroy us in an asset, a guru. Kamata guru now, the Hadith says jealousy
eats away at your good deeds, the same way that the fire will consume the dry logs. May Allah
subhanho wa Taala do that to us. So we need to clean the heart. My brothers and sisters, there are
so many diseases of the heart, we have jealousy, we have envy, we have selfishness. Selfishness
means whenever there is something good, we want it for ourselves alone. Whereas the Hadith speaks of
		
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			Eva, do you know if you look at why Allah subhanho wa Taala loved the answer so much, because Allah
says, while you still own
		
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			foresee him.
		
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			They gave preference to others over themselves, even though they were in desperate need of what they
gave away. So panela you are desperately in need of this, but you gave it away to someone else,
because they needed it more than you.
		
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			Many of us, even if we will not in need of something, we will make sure it did not go to someone
else. Why? Because that's how I am know, if you want to clean your heart and you would like
gentlemen, and you want the love of Allah, learn to share what you have learned to reach out to
people give them preference over your own self, and you will find your heart will become key, you
will learn to love the people around you. Now let me spend a moment talking about the non Muslims
who are around us, my brothers and sisters, many of us if not all of us, myself included, perhaps
our forefathers somewhere they were not Muslim. What happened? Someone made an effort on them,
		
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			someone came to talk to them, to spread with them to do a deal with them, perhaps to interact with
them somehow, Mashallah, because of that interaction, we came on to the deed, because someone was
concerned if the teaching of Islam, if the teaching of Islam was that we must separate ourselves and
attack these people, and sometimes a spouse, or some people actually say you must just kill them, I
suppose. Illa How can that ever be a teaching of Islam when we ourselves were not Muslim? A few
generations back and in some cases, in our own lives? How can that be a teaching of Islam, Your duty
is to go out and to ensure that your interaction with those who are not Muslim, is so beautiful,
		
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			that they see the light of Islam. Allah is the one who will guide but Allah uses us at least to
light that candle Subhan Allah, what is the minimum benefit? The minimum benefit is the one who
dislikes Islam and the Muslims and hates us with a passion, at least in his heart, he will have to
acknowledge that No, these people are actually good, even if he doesn't accept Islam, but in Arabic
received the fee for adultery, which means to reduce the enmity of the enemy, it's a big success. A
person who wanted to harm you every day, now that you interacted with them, they no longer want to
harm you because they realize you are a good man. They might not accept your fate, have you not
		
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			succeeded? You have succeeded in a big way guidance is in the hands of Allah but what you did you
delivered the duty on your shoulders in the correct way. So therefore, I call them all of us to
reach out to the non Muslims in the most beautiful way when we interact with them when we deal with
them with honesty with dignity with beautiful words with great character and conduct look at
Mohammed Salah mahalo. How did he reach out to them? We'll live through the best I don't have time
to go through all those examples, but I promise you it is worth mentioning my brothers and sisters.
It is important for us to cleanse this heart. Remember the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says
		
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			what la de la de la jolla Maho bhikaji la de la caminho Marina well, la he if Allah has used you to
guide one person, it is better than pomorie nam which is the most expensive of conveyance at the
time of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the red camel. So my brothers and sisters, I hope we
can all look into our hearts and I hope that we can all clean it. We can learn to love one another
get along with one another. Remember it's not about me, it's about us. Remember it is about the oma
remember it is about humanity at large humanity is craving at the moment for some form of sanity.
Because there is so much of insanity across the globe. Things we don't understand. People are
		
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			killing each other for no reason to FEMA cotton
		
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			Makoto, the person and it's a prediction of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam who is being killed does
not know why he's being killed. And the one who is the killer doesn't even know why he is killing.
It's happening on the global line. We pray for peace and stability across the globe. And I pray that
these few words can help us all to become better citizens of our nation, and to help us all to
become better Pilates of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and help us rectify the problems we
have in our own small lives in a way that as a result, the entire Ummah can benefit. A guru Kohli
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